Did You Get Up This Morning To Watch The Latest Doctor Who On iView?

Well, here it is. It was the story of last week at Gizmodo Australia, with many readers declaring the ABC's efforts to screen the popular sci-fi series within an hour of its UK showing enough to dissuade them from seeking it via torrents. So, how many of you ultimately got up at five in the morning today to watch it?

Giz AU editor Luke Hopewell argued on Friday that despite the ABC's forward-thinking approach, the lack of higher-quality video was a significant negative, even if it was out of the channel's hands. While some won't mind (or even notice) the 640 x 360 resolution, others used to 720p broadcasts and unconcerned with immediacy would seek out the HD torrents anyway.

Now that the ABC has delivered on its promise, do you think the approach has legs? Hopefully we'll see some traffic numbers for the episode in the near future.

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I got up to watch it, (noticed that it semi clashed with iTunes Festivals first day too). Agree with it being nice to be able to get a higher quality picture.... though, I literally woke up, grab my phone pulled up the iview app and flung it to my apple tv, so could've accounted for something.

I think the approach has legs (but I also think it would have sturdier legs if you didn't have to wait until a week later to watch it again)

"The new series of Doctor Who, including “Asylum of the Daleks”, then starts on ABC1 the following Saturday, 8 September at 7.30pm EST, and is also repeated on ABC2 from Tuesday, 11 September at 9.30pm EST."

Tried and failed. It appeared in iView on my iPad but I wasn't going to wacht it on that. AirPlay wouldn't work so couldn't watch it on that. Fired up the bluray player, but it didn't show up in iView on that. Still haven't seen it yet.

Just watched it with the kids.
Thank you to ABC/BBC this is the way good television should be watched.
When it suites the family to watch it together.
As soon as every other provider matches iview (even with advertising) "Who" would stick with normal transmission?
We almost only watch iview these days.

Didn't wake up early. Because I didn't have to. Watched it about 11am. That's the beauty of iView. Watched it on my media PC attached to my 51"Panasonic. Didn't really notice resolution issues too busy cheering on the Doctor! ;-)

The quality didn't bother me much, I'm just glad I had easy access to the episode immediately after it aired in the UK. I will probably re-watch it on TV on Saturday and then will wait for the box set on blu ray (which I'll probably buy cheaper from overseas).

I watched it mid-morning when I woke up. Quality was just good enough to be watchable - it may only be 640x360 but it has obviously been transcoded really really well - it looks better quality than it is.

Echoing others I might still download an HD version at some point but the convenience of iView is incredible. This is the future of TV and it's comforting to see that the ABC seem to know that and be embracing it!

Central Standard Time ensured I was up watching it at 4.40 a.m. and then again immediately afterwards. Thank you ABC for this preview session of series 7, particularly as I am a shift worker and used to miss out all the time. I love iview.
I am still a little miffed that the last two episodes of series 6 repeats were not uploaded like all the others, because I had to work those evenings and have missed them. Soon perhaps?

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